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1 Transporting Oil Products to Disaster Areas Yasuma Sasaki Rail Transport of Oil Products Generally, railways worldwide play a key role in carrying oil products using tank wagons over long distances between refineries, which are often in port areas, and inland oil depots. As an island nation, Japan imports nearly every barrel of oil it consumes because the country has almost no domestic oil reserves, so rail and road oil transport are key logistical operations. The following table shows the shares of transport volume in fiscal 2009 to the six prefectures in the Kanto and Tohoku regions of Japan where transport distances are 100 km or greater. It clearly demonstrates how oil transport by rail plays a major role in supporting the livelihoods of people in these regions. Transport Immediately after Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami The huge Magnitude 9 Great East Japan Earthquake struck northern Japan midmorning on Friday 11 March The massive damage to the region s power and transport infrastructure, first from the earthquake and then from the tsunami, immediately knocked out supply of oil products (petrol, kerosene, diesel, and fuel oil). Road and rail links were cut and powersupply disruptions even prevented pumping of petrol at stations that had survived the disaster unscathed. Although the rail network around greater Tokyo returned to operation gradually during the weekend, rolling blackouts from Monday 14 March coupled with damage to refineries in the area meant Double-headed DD51 diesel locomotives running on Ban etsu West line (JR Freight) Table 1 Shares of Transport Volume in FY 2009 (1000 kiloliter) Oil Sales Volume Rail Transport Volume Rail Transport Share Nagano Gunma Tochigi Yamanashi 4 Prefectures total Iwate Fukushima 2 Prefectures total Grand total (6 Prefectures) , % 75.6% 67.8% 42.0% 72.3% 23.0% 22.8% 22.8% 53.3% Figures for oil sales volume: Petroleum Association of Japan Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 60 Oct
2 Figure 1 Oil Product Transport Methods Tanker Truck Small volumes/high frequency Petrol station Railway Wagon Large volumes/stability Inland storage depot Small volumes/high frequency Petrol station that oil shipments to inland parts of the Kanto region soon backed up. Even in Tokyo, long lines formed at petrol stations as supplies ran short and unofficial rationing started. In light of this dire situation, on 14 March, JR Freight approached the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLITT) and JR East, which manages train operations in the affected areas, to gain their full support in assuring rail transport of oil. As a result, JR Freight managed to avoid the effects of rolling blackouts from 15 March and restarted oil transport in stages as refineries came back online. Transport to Stricken Areas The 24-hour TV news coverage was soon showing scenes of refugees shivering in the freezing winter cold at evacuation centres, because there was no kerosene for heaters. Increasingly longer queues of people and cars were forming at petrol stations. Before the disaster, oil freight trains to the Tohoku region mainly used the Tohoku Line (from Sendai Rinkai Railway to Morioka Freight Terminal or Koriyama and from the Keihin/Keiyo industrial regions to Koriyama). These lines had been cut and damaged at many locations and restoration work between Utsunomiya Freight Terminal and Morioka Freight Terminal was expected to require a long time to complete. Worse, the only oil refinery in the Tohoku region at Sendai as well as the JR Freight Sendai Rinkai Railway had both suffered major damage from the tsunami. Detour to Morioka Freight Terminal The cuts in the transport links forced planning of a 1030 km detour to Morioka Freight Terminal running from the Keihin area (Negishi ) via the Joetsu Line, Nihonkai Jukan Line, Aoimori Railway Line, and Iwate Galaxy Railway Line. On 16 March, planners hoped to get the detour operational on 19 March, but due to the strenuous efforts of all the companies involved, transport started a day earlier on 18 March. Although the Negishi Refinery of JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation had been affected by the earthquake, it managed to start shipping on the day the detour opened. The only tank wagons that Japan Oil Transportation could run over the full detour were thirty-six old Taki Series wagons built in the Japanese National Railways (JNR) era. They were spread all across Japan at the time and the company rushed to marshal them together as soon as possible. Normally, the Japan Oil Terminal oil depot only operated in the day, but the company immediately switched to night operations to match freight schedules. It was soon clear that running an 18-wagon train each day to the region would require three trains for a total of 54 wagons, meaning we would run out of wagons in 2 days using the 36 available. We frantically started working to find out if the new Taki 1000 Series, of which there were about 900 available, could run the full detour route. With JR East s cooperation, operations could start in a few days. Thanks to the everyone s dedication, the initial detour trains managed to run every day and a second daily run was added from 21 March. Detour to Koriyama Like Iwate Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture was suffering a shortage of oil products too, so a 570-km detour was planned from Negishi to Koriyama via a route 29 Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 60 Oct 2012
3 Figure 2 Damage to JR Freight and JR Group Companies from Great East Japan Earthquake Number of damaged rolling stock (registered to JR Freight) and containers 4 locomotives, 172 container wagons, 46 privately owned freight wagons, 1095 containers, approximately 130 privately owned containers Sapporo (Terminal) Sendai Rolling Stock Inspection and Repair Shed Electric locomotive shed: One locomotive axle derailed, and pit rails bent Provisionally restored on 20 April 2011 Fully restored on 2 June 2011 Diesel locomotive shed: Foundation broken, and locomotive derailed on all axles to drop and break rails Restored and restarted operation on 1 August 2011 Hachinohe Rinkai Railway Flooded area around Kitanuma on Rinkai Line Operations restarted on 2 June 2011 after provisional restoration Hakodate Freight Yukawa Yard flooded Provisionally restored on 14 March 2011 Fully restored on 28 May 2011 Hakodate Freight Koriyama Terminal (Left), Koriyama Rolling Stock Inspection and Repair Shed (Right) Higashi- Aomori Kitanuma Hachinohe Freight Morioka (Terminal) In addition to ground cracks in yard, inspection and ceiling crane disengaged and wagon body support platform dislocated in repair shed Fully restored on 28 April Mito Severe damage to freight handling equipment in Baiko Depot from liquefaction Date of restoration undecided Freight train derailment (one axle of wagon) (Tohoku Main Line Nagamachi yard) Kogota Sendai Freight Depot Rikuzen-Sanno Rikuzen-Yamashita Sendaiko (West, North, Futo stations) Sendai (Terminal) Ishinomakiko Kuroiso Locomotive Depot Koriyama Freight Depot Izumi Miyashita Takasaki Locomotive Depot Hitachi Onahama Tsuchiura Mito To Nagano Shin-Hokota Taiyo Sumidagawa Tokyo (Terminal) Kashima Soccer Stadium Kamisu Okunoyahama Tsuchiura Utility poles damaged and container platform deformed by liquefaction Poles removed on 25 April 2011; Surface repaired on 10 May 2011 Keiyo-Kubota Tokyo (Terminal) Liquefaction in part of yard, and station building subsided, but no operation disruption Legend To Tokai/Kansai Negishi Kashima Rinkai Railway Area around north pier on Kashima Rinko Line destroyed by tsunami and Kamisu damaged by liquefaction Commercial operations restarted between Kamisu and Kashima Soccer Stadium stations on 25 May 2011, and between Okunoyahama and Kamisu stations on 7 June 2011; Oarai Kashima Line passenger line restored on 12 July 2011 between Taiyo and Shin-Hokota stations Fukushima Rinkai Railway Miyashita to Onahama on Rinkai Line as well as head office building, Onahama station building, and inspection/repair shed destroyed by tsunami Recovery of swept-away containers and movement of rubble completed; Freight train operations restarted on 1 February Major JR Freight/group company station or depot damaged Other station Port railway line Note: Terminal means freight terminal Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 60 Oct
4 Ishionomaki Entire station yard as well as shipper s dedicated line and JR Freight owned and operated Senseki Freight Branch Line destroyed by tsunami Containers swept away on land recovered, disassembly of destroyed locomotives and wagons and removal of line equipment completed Sendai Rinkai Railway Entire length of Rinkai Line from underpass No. 10 to end of line as well as head office building, station building, and inspection/repair shed destroyed by tsunami Recovery of swept-away containers, movement of rubble offsite, disassembly of destroyed wagons, and removal of destroyed line equipment completed Sendainishiko reopened on 25 November 2011; Sendaifuto reopened on 16 March 2012; Sendaiko reopened on 19 March 2012; and Sendaikitako to reopen in September 2012 Freight train derailment (Joban Line between Yamashita and Hamayoshida stations) Locomotive hit by tsunami with driver still onboard (about 15:50); 20 freight wagons and 75 containers swept away, but locomotive not derailed and driver unhurt Freight wagon and container disassembly and removal completed; Locomotive disassembly and removal completed in mid-november Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 60 Oct 2012
5 Figure 3 Alternative Oil Transport Routes and Volumes Higashi- Aomori Negishi No. 1 (Equivalent to tanker trucks) Negishi No. 2 (Equivalent to 22 tanker trucks) Negishi to Morioka Terminal approx km Morioka Terminal Storage depot To Morioka Terminal First run Second run (16-18 Wagons) (8 Wagons) March 21 March 16 April April Note: Suspended 8 and 9 April due to major aftershock Nihonkai Jukan Line Sendaikitako Approx. 190 km Niigata Terminal Storage depot Negishi to Koriyama approx. 570 km Approx. 160 km Approx. 560 km Ban etsu West Line Koriyama Ban etsu West Line (two runs a day) (Equivalent to 60 tanker trucks) Joetsu Line Storage depot Utsunomiya Terminal Joetsu Line (one run a day) (Equivalent to 60 tanker trucks) Negishi Terminal To Koriyama 25 March 26 and 28 March 27 and 29 March 30 and 31 March 1 14 April 15 and 16 April Joetsu Line Ban etsu West Line (20 Wagons) (10 Wagons) Note: Suspended 8 April due to major aftershock including the Joetsu and Ban etsu West lines. A major hurdle was the fact that no freight had run on the Ban etsu West Line since 2007, so a lot of the work involved securing sufficient locomotives and drivers to meet the transport capacity. DD51 diesel locomotives were needed, because part of the route was not electrified. Eight locomotives were brought from as far as Hokkaido, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kyushu. Normally, drivers undergo a month of training before driving on lines that they do not normally work on. However, since there was no time, with JR East s cooperation we conducted intensive training of JR Freight drivers on 25 March when the Ban etsu West Line was restored. The transport capacity of the Joetsu Line is 20 wagons, but the steep grade on the Ban etsu West Line only allowed haulage of 10 wagons even with double-headed DD51 locomotives. Consequently, a 20-wagon train was run every other day on the Joetsu Line from the start of operations on 25 March and it was divided at Niigata Freight Terminal into Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 60 Oct
6 Class EF81 freight locomotive hauling tanker wagons (JR Freight) two 10-wagon trains to run daily on the Ban etsu West Line. When enough drivers were ready on 30 March, a 20-wagon train was run every day on the Joetsu Line, with two 10-wagon trains running every day on the Ban etsu West Line. Transport Results for Detour Trains As shown in the following table, between 18 March and 19 April, detour trains to Morioka Freight Terminal hauled the equivalent of 1850 oil tanker trucks. From 25 March to 14 April detour trains to Koriyama hauled the equivalent of 1000 oil tanker trucks. transport to Koriyama is by one train a day from Negishi via the Tohoku Line plus the two trains a day running as in the pre-quake days from refineries in the Keihin/Keiyo area, for a total of three trains a day. Emergency oil transport was achieved after the earthquake by the cooperation of the companies involved. We are sure that, through these efforts, the importance of logistics as part of the social infrastructure has come to be recognized by more people than ever before. Terminus Transport Volume (10,000 kiloliters) Oil Tanker Truck Equivalent Morioka Freight Terminal Koriyama Total Note: Conversion to tanker truck loads = Transport volume (kl)/20 kl (capacity of one tanker truck) Oil Transport after Tohoku Line Reopening Although it has been more than a year since the disaster, Sendaikitako has still not recovered even after the full reopening of the Tohoku Line on 21 April 2011, so oil transport to Morioka Freight Terminal is using two oil freight trains a day from Negishi via the Tohoku Line. Oil Yasuma Sasaki Mr Yasuma Sasaki handles oil and chemical product transport at Marketing Department, Logistics Headquarters at JR Freight. 33 Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 60 Oct 2012
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